Difference between Thingworx Analytics server and Platform Analytics server

[tcoufal]

Hi,

I think that the time has come to try some of that Analytics stuff. 

Few years back the situation was quite unclear.

Can someone explain what is the difference between Thingworx Analytics server and Platform Analytics server. 

Or somebody willing to point me into the right direction in regards to How to start with Analytics? 

Some slides would be nice to get my head around this area. 

Thanks

[rjanardan]

You may start with this developer guide and then go through the other guides here. Select the filter Capability-> Analyze.

[tcoufal]

Ok thanks. 

It will take me a while. 

[cmorfin · Accepted solution]

Hi @tcoufal 

in addition to the developer zone guides mentioned before, in a nutshell:

ThingWorx Analytics Server:

- allows to load a csv dataset of historic data and perform some descriptive analytics (Signals and profile) to understand the fields that have most impact on a outcome.

- allows to create a machine learning model in order to predict outcome for future new data 

Platform analytics:

- contains 2 set of independent components: Descriptive Services and Property Transform services.

- both allow to compute statistical measure (mean max, Fourier transform ...) on incoming data (logged data for Descriptive Services, streamed data for Property Transform)

- this is completely independent from ThingWorx Analytics Server

I would recommend the following articles that gives some overview:

- ThingWorx Analytics product offerings

- Getting Started with ThingWorx Analytics Server

- Overview of ThingWorx Platform Analytics Services

Hope this helps

Kind regards

Christophe